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Historical Event on 8/17/1998
National Human Rights Commission recommends compulsory registration of marriages in a bid to check child marriages.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/12/1969 | Reactor Research Centre established at Kalpakkam. On 18th December 1985, it was renamed as Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research. |
| 6/8/2000 | Bomb blasts rock churches in three states (A.P, Karnataka and Goa). |
| 5/23/1998 | L. K. Advani, Home Minister, is to look after J&K affairs. |
| 3/1/1930 | Coimbatarao Doraikannu Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's), was born in Madras. |
| 3/1/1930 | Sultan Mehmood completely destroyed the Temple of Somnath. |
| 11/7/1990 | Lawrence Durrell, great Indian English and author (Mount Olive), passed away at the age of 78. |
| 5/1/1977 | Janata Party was established. |
| 3/23/1919 | Subhadra Joshi, freedom fighter, was born. She took active participation in Salt and non cooperation movement. She also motivated the freedom movement through her newspaper ""Hamara Sangram"". |
| 3/23/1919 | Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"". |
| 10/30/1883 | Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer. |
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